The contemporary viewer is thus often forced to piece together incomplete and coded 'evidence' to form a picture of an individual's romantic life, while simultaneously remaining careful not to impose anachronistic understandings and labels onto the past. This is because "a variety of repressive legal provisions" have come into force over the past decade, according to the ILGA. The two women were arrested in April by Islamic enforcement officers after being found in a car in a public square in Terengganu, one of the country's most conservative areas. The convicts are ruled by the lesbian warden Thelma and the Governor Santos, who torture and rape the inmates into submission. Two Malaysian women convicted under Islamic law of attempting to have sex have been caned in public.

She reportedly had an affair with Elizabeth Farren and she lived with Mary Berry in her later years.

The couple, aged 22 and 32, were given six strokes of a light rattan cane on their backs on Monday by female prison officers at the Sharia High Court in northeast Terengganu state, a Muslim lawyer said.

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In 1929, Allan assumed the masculine alias of 'Julian Phelps Allan', which has been understood by some as a way of declaring her lesbian identity.Members of the Kayapo tribe block the BR163 highway during a protest outside Novo Progresso in Para state, Brazil.